It's really not as bad as you might think. I had some rifts on my retinas five years ago, discovered at the optician, and have elected to check my retinas yearly ever since. I am quite myopic, which means that my retinas are very thin, and therefore more prone to tearing. My doctor has referred me to another eye doctor to check my eyes now that I am diagnose with D2.
One of the things that has been a hassle to me when checking my retinas, is that since my eyes are dark brown (thanks, dad!) they tend to be over-zealous with the dripping. The darker the eyes, the more sluggish they are at opening the pupils, so if your eye doctor is in a hurry, they might use more drops or stronger drops to hurry things along. For me, that means that the effect of long-sightedness would last for several hours, which was sometimes a problem if I go back to work. I therefore made a deal with them to come early, so that I could sit with the eye drops for longer (about 35 minutes instead of 20). Blue or other light eyes don't have that problem.